[National Love Day] Can adults do orthodontics?

【Introduction】

September 20, 2022 is the 34th "National Love Day". The theme of this year's propaganda is "Oral Health and Sports Health", and the sub -theme is "Ryo -Guojin tooth teeth young and healthy Chinese nation." Through the activities of love, we will increase the publicity and education of oral prevention and treatment, enhance the concept of oral health and the sense of oral health care, establish oral health care behaviors, focus on adolescent oral health, and create a good social atmosphere that is conducive to oral health.

At present, many adults have misunderstandings about orthodontics and believe that only children can perform orthodontics. In fact, orthodontics does not have strict restrictions on age. Whether the restrictions on orthodontics can be performed are mainly the quality of dental, periodontal, and bones.

1. Can adults do orthodontics?

Adults' teeth, periodontal, bones, etc. are good, and orthodontics can be performed. However, before the orthodontics, you need to remove the adverse factors such as the teeth and the periodontal period that affect the correction.

Correction of teeth.

Patients with problems with dental bodies need to be blocked, root canal treatment, and repair therapy before orthodontics. For patients with poor periodontal conditions, they need to go to a professional periodontal period to wash their teeth and scratching to remove the dental stones up and down, eliminate the inflammation of the gums and periodontal tissues, and make the teeth hold in the bones more firmly. For patients with temporal mandibular joints, joint examination and treatment of joints before orthodontics are needed.

2. Can orthodontic treatment become beautiful quickly?

Orthodontic treatment is often used to quickly become beautiful, and to obtain neat and beautiful teeth through orthodontics. However, orthodontics is not a large cosmetic surgery. If you want to change the contour of the face, you need orthodontics-orthodontics; simply orthodontics such as tooth extraction correction, the lips will be recycled after the tooth recycling, which can improve the mouth, and then to a certain extent to a certain extent Change the outline of the area of ​​the mouth and lip.

The treatment time for orthodontics is closely related to the disease that is wrong and its severity. The more severe the condition, the longer the treatment time, the shorter the condition, the shorter the treatment time. In general, the orthodontics time is generally about one and a half to two years, and some patients with severe condition are often more than two years.

Author: Liu Jihui

Source: Shenyang Stomatology Hospital

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